17 Times Your Favorite Movies Brainwashed Women Into Devaluing Their Self-Worth

[Judi Lynn]

17 Times Your Favorite Movies Brainwashed Women Into Devaluing Their Self-Worth
Newsflash: We all deserve respect no matter what clothes we have on.

Posted on March 27, 2017, at 11:00 a.m.
Mireya González
Mireya González
BuzzFeed Staff, Mexico


1. When they taught us that the treatment we get depends on our outfit.



Remember how, in Pretty Woman, no one respected the protagonist because of the way she dressed, but when she put on a pretty dress, everything changed? She even finds love! WOW! Newsflash: We all deserve respect no matter what clothes we have on.


2. When they told us that, to be loved by someone, we have to change our personality.



Sandy is smart, pretty, and kind, but then she becomes everything she's not just to fit in with a group and be liked by a nasty guy at her school.

3. When they insinuated that we have to play dumb in order to be loved.



Cher, from Clueless, is an exaggeration of the dumb girl stereotype. She's not even dumb, actually, which makes it all the more awful. Having to pretend that she's ignorant just so that she doesn't come across as presumptuous (because no one wants a confident woman, ugh) is just wrong.

4. When they told us that us working ladies are bitter and that only a man can save us.



Sandra Bullock in The Proposal is a successful, empowered woman with a good job who, of course, finds herself in a rough patch and remains bitter until she finds a man to change her life around and make her happy once again. Ugh.

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[Loki Liesmith]

1. Completely wrong on Clueless

Completely. So totally misunderstands the movie that it's hard to take the rest seriously.

[Warpy]

2. I'm glad to say I missed a lot of them

but the ones I've seen, I've hated.

They were wrong on "Legally Blonde," the point of the movie meaning that you might make the right choice for the wrong reason, but if you're a smart woman, you'll wake the fuck up fairly quickly.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. 20s music was way worse

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Lyrics included lines like "I'll find a cottage for you, you'll learn to cook and to sew. Once more you'll love it I know, when you're a stay at home, play at home, 8 O'clock sleepy time gal."

Seems like just about every song from that era was about a man telling a woman how happy she will be to stay in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.

[Buzz cook]

4. Not every song.

I like that this is a happy song.